'A duck!... A baby duck.' (Squealing about a birthday card on her third birthday on Puerta Vallarta, Mexico.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

'Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.'

'When you kiss someone, your heart goes out to them, and when you're done kissing them your heart goes back in.'

“I like lights on buildings, because without them you wouldn't be able to see all the beauty in the world.” (About the lights on the football field at the local highschool.)